Projects of the futures

If all of the projects people are working on are going to be kept in the family or sold when finished, what will happen to the future generation of car lovers if all cars are either finished or crushed into cubes of metal. Will we have to learn to work with newer cars? Will we need to just buy kit cars? one of reasons people have projects now are because hot roding fell out of favor for some years and when gas spiked in the early 70's, full sippers were needed more than high octane drinking machines. So many were melted during WW2 for weapons, some scraped later on, some hot roded in the 50's and 60's, and now we have the ones today. But what will happen when all cars are done?

Corvair's in mass

On July 19th, we went out to go see this car show and I was surprised with how many Corvair's were there. from looking around there were more Corvair's there than any other make. It seemed surprising I thought there would be tons of 289 Mustangs and vetts than any other car, but no, there were probably 30 corvair's out of the 100 cars there... it was very surprising. My Question is are Corvairs more popular then before

Vintage Nascar

I went to big lots today and got a 4 piece DVD set of vintage newsreals about 50's and 60's nascar.

I started to think why do they not have stock cars racing any more and why are all new cars needed to have the same size engine?. All of the new Nascar cars take the vehicle part of the equations. It... it is just destroying what is cool in nascar.

The Comet experience

There is almost a feeling of a new member in the family when you get a new car. And that is not an exception for the 1963 Mercury Comet. We just got this beauty on July 2. If you are wondering what size hole this made in my wallet, it was only $5,001.oo. Pretty good for a car that has had 6 grand put in it. Of corse their are some issues with it, chrome needs to be re-chromed, the speedometer does not work, their is a scratch on the hood were the thunderbolt style hood scoop was added, it needs a new linkage for the shifter, and the oil pan gasket. Well the cars 46 years old, I hope to look that good when I'm 46. I will keep a log on my progress on my hamb account. I will put some pics up soon.

Big 3 stimulus plan- Factory hot rods

Just the other day I was looking back at my April '08 HOT ROD Magazine and saw the Made in Detroit article. Reading it and studying the photos, I put to mind the idea of Factory hot rods. Think about it, you go to a plain ford dealer walk past the Focus and see a retro '32 deuce sitting on the show room floor. If the big 3 started to sell those in the low to mid 20 grand area, I would be running to my closest dealer. It could make a good stimulus plan for them. Well its a dream, and I can dream cant I.